Stripping away HTML tags in a stored procedure

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Stripping away HTML tags in a stored procedure

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fizgig
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34 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-02 : 12:18:52

Anybody know how to strip HTML tags from a text field inside a stored procedure?

nizmaylo
Constraint Violating Yak Guru

258 Posts

Posted - 2002-01-02 : 12:23:43

Something like this:

CREATE FUNCTION cleanLongDesc(
@myLongDesc varchar(8000))
RETURNS varchar(8000) -- cleaned long desc
AS
BEGIN

DECLARE @fpos int, @spos int, @myNewDesc varchar(8000)

SET @myNewDesc=@myLongDesc

IF CHARINDEX('<', @myLongDesc) > 0
BEGIN
SET @fpos=CHARINDEX('<', @myNewDesc)

WHILE @fpos > 0
BEGIN
SET @spos=CHARINDEX('>', @myNewDesc)
IF @spos > @fpos
SET @myNewDesc=STUFF(@myNewDesc, @fpos, @spos-@fpos+1, '')
ELSE
SET @myNewDesc=STUFF(@myNewDesc, @spos, 1, '')
SET @fpos=CHARINDEX('<', @myNewDesc)
END

END
RETURN @myNewDesc
END

helena

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